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Was the real exodus the Hyksos expulsion?
Some scholars suggest the exodus memory may echo the expulsion of the Asiatic Hyksos from Egypt, three centuries before Merneptah.
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Others think the historical kernel may be a hero named Moses and a small group that left Egypt and later joined Israel.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 39
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